DAY OF ACCIDENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15504, 10 January 1914, Page 8

DAY OF ACCIDENTS.

DOCTOR INJURED,

FOUND ON THE TRAMLINE.

A FRACTURED SKULL.

CONDITION SERIOUS.

As" unusually large number of accidents occurred yesterday. A somewhat mysterious accident of a serious nature befel Dr. F. W. King in Wellesley Street at about eight o'clock last night. The motorman of ft tramenr proceeding down the thoroughfare noticed a man lying by the side of the opposite set of rails. He stopped the car, and Mr. A. Plugge and a member of the New Zealand Medical Corps went to render assist-once. They found that the injured man was Dr. King, and that there was profuse hemorrhage from his right ear. There were no marks of violence on the head. The police were summoned, and Dr. King was taken on a stretcher to his home in Symonds Street, where Dr. Parkes made an examination. The latter found that the base of Dr. King's skull was badly fractured, and he diagnosed the case as a serious one. Dr. King was then removed to Mount Pleasant Hospital- No information could be gathered as to how the accident occurred, but it is surmised that Dr. King accidentally slipped off the step of a tramcar. His condition at an early hour this morning was reported to be serious.

WHARF WORKER' TALL.

VERY SEVERE INJURIES.

Shortly before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, a wharf labourer named John Horton Bell. 28 years of age, a single man, and a resident of Northcote, was injured on the Queen's Wharf. Bell and a number of other men were handling wool in D shed. Later, it was decided to carry out the work in F shed, and the men decided to take a short cut by walking over the trolley crane supporting the electric trolley between the sheds. Suddenly Bell, who seemed to be seized with a fit, fell off the | trolley way on to the floor of the shed, and i struck the asphalt with his head. Doctors Hope and Parker arrived shortly afterwards, and they found that the man had sustained a fractured skull, and a fractured leg. One of Bell's feet was also injured. Last night his condition was reported to be very serious.

INJURIES PROVE FATAL. CRUSHED BY\ A TRUCK. The waterside worker, William H. Pi - dock, who was admitted to the hospital | on Monday suffering from severe injuries to both legß as a result of being crushed by a truck on the King's Wharf, died yesterday. An inquest will be held at 9.30 o'clock this morning. WAGGON HOUSES BOLT. CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN. A rather serious accident befel Mr. Reid Harper, of Rosedale Park, Pukekohe while haymaking, Two horses attached to a waggon bolted. In an attempt to catch the runaways, he was knocked down, one horse treading on him, and the wheels passing over his shoulder. Dr. Wake waa on the scene in less than hali-an-hour, and pronounced him to be suffering tram concussion of the brain, and an injured long, though no bones were broken. Fortunately the waggon was empty at the time. Mr. Harper is progressing very favourably. WHARF WORKER INJURED. STRUCK BY A SLEEPER. [BT telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] GisnoßXK. Friday. While engaged in unloading railway sleepers from the Ripple at the wharf tonight, a waterside worker, named William Cole, was struck on the side of the head by an iron rail and sustained a fracture of the base of the skull, as well as a depressed fracture of the vault of the skull.

The unloading gang was using a couple of rails as skids, and as a sling of rails was ascending from the hold it struck the end of one of the skids, causing one of; the sleepers to slew round suddenly and ;to strike the unfortunate man. He was i taken to the hospital, where an operation was performed. His condition is regarded as critical.

MISHAP Or A MINE. STRUCK BY FLYING STONE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Hokittka, Friday. A miner named Finlay had a narrow en-ape from death this morning at the Rosa Goldfield mine. He was coming out of a cross drive when a shot was being fired in the headway, and was struck on the breast by a stone. He was over 120 ft away at the time of the occurrence, which was purely accidental. The wound inflicted necessitated the insertion of nine stitches. YOUNG CYCLIST KILLED. RUM OVER BY A CART. [BY telegraph.i-bess association.] Wehtport, Friday. A lad. aged 12, who has not yet been identified, was run over by a cart opposite the post office this forenoon and killed. He was riding a bicycle while looking at an almanac and following a cart. He shot out in front of another cart coming in the opposite direction, and wbb knocked down, the wheel passing over his. head.